From an Instagram post I made 58 weeks ago when pandemic was young: 🌿My survival strategies: breathe, nature, allllllllll the immune-boosters, hand-washing (obvi), flower essences, kriya for the 10 bodies, metta meditation, extra dance parties, sewing, reading, cleaning the kitchen, frequent hugs from the people…
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The place where I teach yoga from home is my bedroom. Standing on my mat, I look east, and beyond the Douglas Fir who keeps time for the neighborhood, beyond the array of arborvitae and cedar trees in the mid-ground, beyond Rocky Butte, my eyes…
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Night Vision One of our favorite picture books is Dahlov Ipcar’s “The Cat at Night.” The book follows a cat, whose people believe him to be fast asleep all night, on many adventures through the long, dark, wonderful night. Cats can see at night, and…
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“What you are first able to write on the page, whether the writing comes easily or with difficulty, is not likely to be close to a finished poem.” (Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook, 109). For me, making the first mark on the page is not…
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I have wondered over the past few weeks about the potential process of healing from the crisis of this presidential administration.* Among the systems that we know are in need of repair is our capacity and skill in relating to those with whom we disagree,…
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This week on the podcast, I answered a question about deciding what organizations and movements to support with your time, money and psychic efforts. It’s a question I am thrilled to receive frequently, and I was so happy to externalize my process a little bit.…
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moon in sagittarius hope is your birthright. action is your prayer. the arrow flies: shine bright! douglas fir sunrise sentinel. ever-changing, but still my anchor. thank you for being here. In her amazing book Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg mentions a practice of creating…
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or the painting is on its own path. or our karmas are intertwined. I’m enrolled in a writing class at our local university this term. It’s a basic composition class, very similar to a writing class my first year of college nearly twenty-three years ago.…
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there is not an aspect of my life that practice hasn’t touched. i can feel cellular rewiring, scrubbing, renewing all the time. stepping out of old selves almost as fast as i can process the shedding. it feels correct, it feels natural (yet i know…
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beloveds, i know for the past few years i have been on and off with my writing practice here. between teaching, practicing and living, i have struggled to find the flow here. this is one of the many reasons i have been on a semi-sabbatical…
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